Rpwl - The RPWL Experience (Special Ed.)
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Artist: RpwlEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: Inside Out Music
Soundtracks:
- Silenced
- Breath In, Breath Out
- Where Can I Go
- Masters Of War
- This Is Not A Prog Song
- Watch Myself
- Stranger
- River
- Choose What You Want To Look At
- Turn Back The Clock
- Scared And Alone (bonus track)
- Reach The Sun (bonus track)
Free Music Notes for The RPWL Experience (Special Ed.)
Free Music Review: One of the finest albums of 2008
Hit: 5 Stars
I was listening to "The RPWL Experience" yesterday and marveled at how excellent this album is. Clocking in at over 77:00 there is no filler and many, many highlights.
Listening to the opening song, "Silenced" is a literal explanation of RPWL's sound and the styles they cover, which are many and done impeccably well. We are taken on a near - pop song that feels not only catchy, but like it will run in the four minute range, only to take a sharp curve to hard rocking prog, then symphonic prog. The manipulation of the song zigging and zagging thru various themes with an expected, and hoped for, return to the pop segment of "Silenced".
It is an album in a song, so to speak.
For the next several songs the intensity continues with various forms of pop/rock and progressive weaved artfully together.
What makes this so exceptional is how melodic RPWL stay in a genre not always known for an instant payoff. And yet the same songs refuse to bow to pop tradition and pay more attention to the progressive rock style where anything goes.
"Breathe In, Breathe Out" sounds better than anything Pink Floyd has done since Meddle, or if you liked later Floyd material, as good as anything from "Dark Side..." or "Wish You Were Here". Keep in mind RPWL were a Pink Floyd cover band in their early years, as "This Is Not A Prog Song" alludes to in its somewhat bitter lyrics to some critics.
Note: while compared to Porcupine Tree (another favorite of mine) it is worth considering that PT's sound took a major change with "Stupid Dream" and really kicked into the sound most people identify them with on "In Absentia" onward to "Fear of a Blank Planet". If anything, RPWL's development has been parallel.
I favor the first half of "The RPWL Experience" but that's like saying you favor something you admire a bit more than the whole of something you admire.
The entire CD, including the two bonus tracks, are excellent.
If you want to point your melodically oriented friends to great prog, "The RPWL Experience" is an excellent place to start.
The RPWL Experience (Special Ed.) Poster
As the wave of new European progressive rock continues to break on the shores of North America, an obvious few have risen to the top in both critical and audience acclaim. Following in the footsteps of Porcupine Tree and Riverside, Germany s RPWL is now ready to stake their claim with the release of their fifth studio album, The RPWL Experience .Aptly titled, the album takes the listener on a journey through soundscapes that are equally entertaining and thought provoking. Discovery is the theme, and RPWL have delivered musical and lyrical visions that will always provide something new with each listen, as fans of the genre demand. The RPWL Experience is certain to be one of the most important progressive rock releases of 2008.
The Special Edition comes housed in a special slip case and contains two bonus tracks.
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